[vondur]

The US will import people from other countries. We are doing it now.

[emseetech]

There’s a limit to that because almost every other country save a few exceptions is seeing the same demographic decline.

But the US for all its faults is very good at assimilating its immigrant population. Everyone in the end becomes mostly American. No other country manages to do that nearly as well. Not countries in Europe and definitely not China or Japan.

So that means the US will have a softer landing in the transition to a post-growth economy.

[grotorea]

Will that fix the issue in the article? New immigrants presumably are some of the people that are the most free to pick anywhere in the country to move to, so they will be even more prone to going to big cities that are already growing.

[48864w6ui]

Thus demonstrating more common sense than the indigenous who don't budge from contracting areas?

[grotorea]

I think that's too dismissive of the their reasons. Migrants just have more flexibility and for good reasons.